Pakistan Oscar Spotlights Campaign to End Acid Attacks

Films don’t often change the world by themselves. But Oscar winner “Saving Face” appears to have caught a zeitgeist in which Pakistani women are starting to get traction in a fight for equal rights.

On Sunday night, when Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy accepted her Oscar for “Saving Face,” a documentary about a doctor’s efforts to reconstruct the faces of acid-attack victims, the campaign to end the brutal practice of acid throwing got an unexpected shot in the arm.

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